FC4 state of affairs and FC5

[Farkas Levente]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've been lurking this list for quite some time now, waiting for a good
> reason to post... 
> Seems that I found one.
> 
> Let me first point out that this is not a rant; I understand that the
> Fedora Core is supplied "as is" and that the FC development team isn't
> working *for me*. In short, they don't owe me anything.
> Plus, being a Linux developer myself, I can appreciate the *perceived*
> (in my eyes) lack of interest in dealing with (what-seems-to-be-in-my-
> eyes) bugs, when the FC5 development is at full swing.
> 
> I'm not trying to start a flame war; I am trying to understand the
> direction in which the Fedora Core foundation is heading, and make my
> own decisions as a result. (Roll back machines to FC3, keep others at
> FC2/3, switch to another distro, etc)
> 
> Three months ago FC4 was released; as expected, being bleeding edge FC4
> was buggy as hell (compared to FC2/FC3). However, living on the bleeding
> edge comes at a price, and I'm willing to pay it.
> 
> Like any good user, I did my best to report what-ever bugs I saw:
> Some of them were fix promptly:
> 
> Missing KDE screensavers: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161312
> 
> LVM2 boot problems: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164250
> 
> But others were not:
> gpilotd segfaults:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156646
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160926
> 
> Python gtksourceview:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162403
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161223
> 
> GDB segfaults when debugging libraries:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161401
> 
> Thus far, nothing new. FC4 has known bugs that are being (slowly?)
> addressed. 

i've to add this bugs too as very annoying and long standing:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165658
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165859

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